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Summary:For nearly 100 years, the American Institute of Steel Construction has been the leading advocate and trusted resource for American structural steel. These business development representatives build and retain strong relationships in the design and construction community by being visibly present in target cities, while leveraging the resources and expertise of AISC to deliver better project outcomes. The primary responsibility of this role is to educate the design and construction community about the benefits of structural steel with the goal of influencing them to select structural steel framing systems for the projects over which they can exercise influence.

AISC's Structural Steel Specialists live and work in target cities around the country building relationships and meeting with key decision makers about the benefits of fabricated structural steel for their buildings. They spend at least 10 days a month calling on architects, structural engineers, owners/developers and contractors to help them deliver better project outcomes with steel.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

Support the increased use of domestically fabricated structural steel through:

Primary Duties

Develop personal relationships with 50 key decision makers in the target city

A minimum of ten full days per month are to be spent in the target city (out of the office) engaging decision makers

Relationship development may occur through personal visits, presentations at local offices, professional events, steel industry events, trade shows and social networking

Personal contacts are to be maintained on a minimum of a quarterly basis

Communicating the structural steel value proposition to decision makers throughout the region while communicating and reinforcing the typical fabricator business model

Maintain cooperative relationships with AISC full member fabricators in the region while communicating and educating them on leveraging the resources of the Steel Solutions Center, the value of early fabricator involvement and the value proposition for structural steel framing systems

Through relationships with key decision makers influence the decision maker to seriously consider the use of a structural steel framing system on a project through either:

Submitting the project to the AISC Steel Solutions Center for the development of a conceptual solution, engaging an AISC full member fabricator to provide cost and schedule information, delivering the conceptual solution to the decision maker in concert with the fabricator and handing off the follow up to the fabricator, or

Handing off the project to an AISC full member fabricator(s) willing to move the sale forward prior to the development of the conceptual solution

Host an annual event for decision makers in the target city in conjunction with SteelDay

Promote and support the IDEAS2 Award program for projects in the target city area

Author an annual target city marketing plan consistent with the overall AISC marketing plan which identifies key markets, contacts and goals within the assigned metropolitan area.

Develop the necessary expertise to be a subject matter expert in an approved specialty area. These specialty areas may be centered on a project type, competing material, technical area of concern, a market consideration or a class of decision maker.

Train and support other AISC staff members with respect to the specialty area

Develop and maintain information, presentations and publications related to the specialty area

Represent the structural steel industry at one to two national or regional meetings focused on the specialty area

Secondary Duties

Have a working knowledge regarding other AISC activities such as continuing education, university representation, committee involvement, membership recruitment and certification, but invests their efforts on market development activities

Attend at least one meeting per year of each fabricator association in your market area.

Participate in AISC functions such as NASCC, SteelDay, National Industry Trade Shows, and staff conferences

Qualification Requirements:

-A minimum of 3 experience in building design, construction or fabrication. -Technical background (a degree in civil/structural engineering, construction management or architecture), construction industry sales/marketing experience, or structural steel fabrication experience is preferred. -Fantastic verbal and written communication skills are critical to your success. -You'll also need to be comfortable working with clients and public speaking. -Knowledge of Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Google Docs/Drive, CRM) -Creativity, writing expertise, appreciation of the unique role of each individual on the design-construction team, drive, organization skills and sales aptitude are a necessity.

About American Institute of Steel Construction

About Us
OUR MISSION: MAKING STRUCTURAL STEEL THE MATERIAL OF CHOICE
The American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC), headquartered in Chicago, is a non-partisan, not-for-profit technical institute and trade association established in 1921 to serve the structural steel design community and construction industry in the United States. AISC’s mission is to make structural steel the material of choice by being the leader in structural-steel-related technical and market-building activities, including: specification and code development, research, education, technical assistance, quality certification, standardization, market development, and advocacy. AISC has a long tradition of service to the steel construction industry providing timely and reliable information.
As part of AISC's mission, we emphasize:
Increasing the structural steel industry's share of the construction market
Unifying the industry with a common purpose
Increasing the structural steel industry’s share of the construction market
Supporting and improving the ability of the structural steel industry to be both innovative and competitive in a worldwide construction market
Since its establishment, AISC has ...conducted its numerous activities with a scrupulous sense of public responsibility. For this reason, and because of the high caliber of its staff, the Institute enjoys a close working relationship with architects, engineers, code officials and educators who recognize its professional status in the fields of specification writing, structural research, design development and performance standards.
AISC represents the total experience, judgment and strength of the entire domestic industry of steel fabricators, distributors and producers. The scope and success of its activities could not be achieved by any one member of the industry. The nation shares the rewards of these activities – through better, safer and more economical buildings, bridges and other structures framed in structural steel.
Smarter. Stronger. Steel.

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